hello again,

it’s been a while

this is alone together

I am always fascinated by the ways poetry comes to you.

it always finds you, in multitudinous and multivarious ways

in fact, it would be safe to say. there are as many different ways for poetry to find a poet, as there are for your poems to find me.

todays episode, shows the work of a poet I liked the work of. that’s about it.

no theme, no stimulus word, no prestige... at least not yet. They are a verse maker from North Carolina, the far side of the pond from me. with a hallucinatory and sonically fluid work that I thought looked tasty on the page, but delicious on the ear.

Her Name is Nicole Verrone, and I asked her to read a bit from her Debut nest of stars and tell me a bit about how the poems came to be.

take a listen.

Loss Hurts.

It just does.

So let’s be real for a sec.

Let’s talk about it.

Poems and thoughts By Casey BaileySamples of Lawrence Brownlee and Jason Moran Via NPR Sound by think Write Fly

It's ThinkWriteFly's Turn to share some Poems, He's taking his pen for a walk.

How Locked down are you?

Right now?

Are we shielding?

Do you, like me, keep misplacing your mask?

This is a moment, a strange one to experience.

So it was a pleasure to work with a poet and a poem that captures it

whether in the form of a photograph. or a glow fly in a bottle.

Poetry By Jessica Mookherjee, Sound By ThinkWriteFly.

I cant tell…

whether its the Campfire,

the Neon of the City,

or our Phone screens.

But, this is Episode 3.

And its Glowing.

Featuring the Verse and Voices of Louise McStravick, Rhiannon Fidler and Suna Afshan

Episode 2's theme is Arboretum.

Come with us.

For the first experiment in this project, I ask some fellow poets to write on the theme of Quiet. this is what they had to say.

weekly poetry pod open to all, with poets across the world contributing performances, writing for and to each of us shut-in at home.